There goes a strange–looking woman! What an odd gown she has got on! How old–fashioned it is! Look at the back.”

she longed to dance, but she had not an acquaintance in the room

chandler

a large Newfoundland puppy and two or three terriers

rubbed her temples with lavender–water

curate

post–masters

cravats

a letter

a bilious fever

To poultice chestnut mare” — a farrier’s bill!

pamphlets

scullery

abbeys

a traveling–chaise and four

to be introduced to her

Captain

fifty guineas

fifty thousand pounds

country–dancing

cotillions

sword–case

Curricle

Did not we agree together to take a drive this morning?

phaetons

the lady had asked whether any message had been left for her; and on his saying no, had felt for a card, but said she had none about her, and went away

It was too dirty for Mrs. Allen to accompany her husband to the pump–room

Going to One Wedding Brings on Another?

greatcoat

sprigged muslin

pump–room

seemeth

“Washington Crossing the Delaware.”

when a Malefactor who has the Halter about his Neck, is tyed up, and just going to be turn’d off, and has a Reprieve brought to him: I say, I do not wonder that they bring a Surgeon with it, to let him Blood that very Moment they tell him of it, that the Surprise may not drive the Animal Spirits from the Heart, and overwhelm him

because they could not publickly sell the Negroes when they came home

Permission of the Kings of Spain and Portugal, and engross’d in the Publick, so that few Negroes were brought

Plantation and a Sugar-House

Ducats

Twenty-two Days

80 Pieces of Eight

all the Ships from Europe, which sail’d either to the Coast of Guiney, or to Brasil, or to the East-Indies

the River Gambia or Sennegall, that is to say, any where about the Cape de Verd

As news of the Spanish conquest spread, wealth-hungry Spaniards poured into the New World seeking land and gold and titles

social and political advancement i

so that it is our duty to do justice and to restore to thefreemen their freedom, but it cannot be done i

too late to go Apprentice to a Trade, or Clerk to an Attorney

middle State, or what might be called the upper Station of Low Life

Generation Chronology

Synod of Whitby

Wave after wave she unleashed, until much of the land was underwater and many of the people were drowned.

A long time ago human beings lived high up in what is now called heaven.

When the boys had grown to man’s estate, they decided that it was necessary for them to increase the size of their island,

After much discussion the toad was finally persuaded to dive to the bottom of the waters in search of soil. Bravely making the attempt, he succeeded in bringing up soil from the depths of the sea. This was carefully spread over the carapace of the Turtle, and at once both began to grow in size and depth.

Eshu demanded sacrifice be made to Obatala and himself before he would deliver the message. The people sacrificed some goats, and Eshu returned to the sky.  

The next day he realized what he had done, and swore never to drink again, and to take care of those who were deformed, thus becoming Protector of the Deformed.  

He did as he was told, whereupon the hen landing on the sand began scratching and scattering it about

In the beginning, there was only the sky above, water and marshland below. The chief god Olorun ruled the sky, and the goddess Olokun ruled what was below. Obatala, another god, reflected upon this situation, then went to Olorun for permission to create dry land for all kinds of living creatures to inhabit

So he shook violently the various animals – the bears, deer, and turkeys – causing them to become small at once, a characteristic which attached itself to their descendants

When the boys had grown to man’s estate, they decided that it was necessary for them to increase the size of their island, so they agreed to start out together, afterward separating to create forests and lakes and other things.

When these were wearied they asked, "Who will volunteer to care for this woman?" The great Turtle then took her, and when he got tired of holding her, he in turn asked who would take his place. At last the question arose as to what they should do to provide her with a permanent resting place in this world.

It so happened that this chief’s daughter was taken very ill with a strange affection. All the people were very anxious as to the outcome of her illness. Every known remedy was tried in an attempt to cure her, but none had any effect.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, 1 Cor. 11.7 after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18  and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

In the American Southwest sometime between the years 900 and 1300 ancient Puebloan peoples built a large civilization sustained by advanced irrigation and a vast trading network linking goods from as far as Central Mexico and the Mississippi River

Several expansive civilizations in the Midwest and Southwest demonstrated the potential for large-scale Indian civilizations.

But native populations adapted: they fished, hunted small mammals, and gathered nuts and berries.

Agriculture arose sometime between nine- and five-thousand years ago, almost simultaneously in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Mesoamericans in modern-day Mexico and Central America first domesticated maize and and developed perhaps the hemisphere’s first settled population around 1,200 BCE.

Nomadic hunter-gatherers, they traveled in small bands following megafauna–enormous mammals that included mastodons and giant horses and bison–into the frozen Beringian tundra at the edge of North America.

Hunters across the hemisphere preyed on plentiful game and natural foods and the population boomed

George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (New York: Pantheon Books, 2012), ix.

four big questions

the spring of 1787.

albums produced between 1908 and 1913 by developers and the real estate industry to entice potential middle and upper class tenants to New York City’s “principal high class apartment houses,” declares one volume’s subtitle. Each featured apartment house is briefly described, and illustrated with an exterior photograph and one or more floor plans.

Maria Anna (called Marianne and nicknamed Nannerl) was – like her younger brother – a child prodigy. The children toured most of Europe (including an 18-month stay in London in 1764-5) performing together as “wunderkinder”. There are contemporaneous reviews praising Nannerl, and she was even billed first. Until she turned 18. A little girl could perform and tour, but a woman doing so risked her reputation.

The effects of slavery endured long after emancipation.

Yet the end of legal slavery did not mean the end of racial injustice.

Lincoln won twenty-two states, and McClellan only managed to carry three: New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky.19

In a time when the average woman gave birth to eight to ten children in her lifetime,

In the North, the conditions in hospitals were somewhat superior. 

It is a common misconception that amputation was accompanied without anesthesia and against a patient’s wishes.

Around 1862 both armies began to dig latrines rather than rely upon the local waterways.

Tuberculosis, measles, rheumatism, typhoid, malaria, and smallpox spread almost unchecked among the armies.

arrested all rebellious women as prostitutes.

The working class citizens of New York felt especially angered as wealthy New Yorkers paid $300 for substitutes, sparing themselves from the hardships of war.

The Gettysburg Campaign was Lee’s final northern incursion and the Battle of Gettysburg remains the bloodiest battle of the war, and in American history, with 51,000 casualties.

There was never any doubt that black laborers and camp servants were property.

Gooding argued that, because he and his brethren were born in the United States and selflessly left their private lives and to enter the army, they should be treated “as American SOLDIERS, not as menial hirelings.

African American soldiers in the Union army endured rampant discrimination and earned less pay than white soldiers, while also facing the possibility of being murdered or sold into slavery if captured by Confederate forces.

In order to avoid the issue of the slaves’ freedom, Butler reasoned that runaway slaves were “contraband of war,” and he had as much a right to seize them as he did to seize enemy horses or cannons

. War meant the possibility of disruption to their cotton produced on the backs of slave labor, and disruption could have catastrophic ramifications in commercial and financial markets abroad.

“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

. Like an anaconda snake, they planned to surround and squeeze the Confederacy.

Committee of Thirteen

sine qua non

while doing little else to address the issues tearing the country apart.

the Republicans were hardly unified around a single candidate themselves

The nation’s oldest party had split over differences in policy toward slavery.

The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation’s history, resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths.1 The war touched the life of nearly every American as military mobilization reached levels never seen before or sinc

Trump's embrace of racism, anti-Mexican immigrant bigotry and Islamophobia is largely opportunistic. My only hesitation in calling it cynical is that I think Trump may be the type who, once he finds something convenient to say, then starts to believe it.

As mentioned above category theory has branched out into certain areas of scienceas well. Baez and Dolan have shown its value in making sense of quantum physics, itis well established in computer science, and it has found proponents in several otherfields as well. But to my mind, we are the very beginning of its venture into scientificmethodology. Category theory was invented as a bridge and it will continue to serve inthat role.

All this time, however, category theory was consistently seen by much of the mathe-matical community as ridiculously abstract. But in the 21st century it has finally cometo find healthy respect within the larger community of pure mathematics. It is the lan-guage of choice for graduate-level algebra and topology courses, and in my opinion willcontinue to establish itself as the basic framework in which mathematics is done

In 1980 Joachim Lambek showed that the types and programs used in computerscience form a specific kind of category. This provided a new semantics for talking aboutprograms, allowing people to investigate how programs combine and compose to createother programs, without caring about the specifics of implementation. Eugenio Moggibrought the category theoretic notion of monads into computer science to encapsulateideas that up to that point were considered outside the realm of such theory.

Bill Lawvere saw category theory as a new foundation for all mathematical thought.Mathematicians had been searching for foundations in the 19th century and were reason-ably satisfied with set theory asthe foundation. But Lawvere showed that the categoryof sets is simply a category with certain nice properties, not necessarily the center ofthe mathematical universe. He explained how whole algebraic theories can be viewedas examples of a single system. He and others went on to show that higher order logicwas beautifully captured in the setting of category theory (more specifically toposes).It is here also that Grothendieck and his school worked out major results in algebraicgeometry.

The paradigm shift brought on by Einstein’s theory of relativity brought on the real-ization that there is no single perspective from which to view the world. There is nobackground framework that we need to find; there are infinitely many different frame-works and perspectives, and the real power lies in being able to translate between them.It is in this historical context that category theory got its start.

The first and most ominous sign of a coming sectional storm occurred over debates surrounding the admission of the State of Missouri in 1821.

Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 contest on November 6, gaining just 40% of the popular vote and not a single southern vote in the Electoral College.

It was Kansas that at last proved to many northerners that the sectional crisis would not go away unless slavery also went away.

“Bleeding Kansas” was the first place to demonstrate that the sectional crisis could easily, and in fact already was, exploding into a full-blown national crisis.

the anti-immigrant movement simply could not capture the nation’s attention in the ways the antislavery movement already had.

The year 1855 nearly derailed the northern antislavery coalition

In the words of Amos Adams Lawrence, “We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, compromise Union Whigs & woke up stark mad Abolitionists.”13

Ordinary Americans in the North increasingly resisted what they believed to be a pro-slavery federal government on their own terms.

One measure of the popularity of antislavery ideas came in 1852 when Harriet Beecher Stowe published her bestselling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

The 1852 Presidential election gave the Whigs their most stunning defeat and effectively ended their existence as a national political party.

The Fugitive Slave Act created the foundation for a massive expansion of federal power, including an alarming increase in the nation’s policing powers

By 1850, California wanted admission as a free state.

a women’s rights movement also got underway in July at Seneca Falls, New York

Left unrepresented, antislavery Free Soil leaders swung into action.

Douglass grew up, like many enslaved people, barely having known his own mother or date of birth

But the Liberty Party also shunned women’s participation in the movement, and distanced themselves from visions of true racial egalitarianism.

whites never intended them to be citizens of the United States

Even seemingly simple and straightforward phrases like “All Men Are Created Equal” were hotly contested all over again

laws tried to keep blacks out of the West entirely.

Kentucky and Tennessee emerged as slave states, while free states Ohio, Indiana (1816) and Illinois (1818) gained admission along the river’s northern banks.

Thomas Jefferson, believed that slavery was a temporary institution and would soon die ou

Vermont coming into the Union as a free state, and Kentucky coming in as a slave state

communities that would continually reignite the antislavery struggle.

English political theorists, in particular, began to re-think natural law justifications for slavery.

They generated tremendous wealth for the British crown

Southerners feared that without slavery’s expansion, the abolitionist faction would come to dominate national politics and an increasingly dense population of slaves would lead to bloody insurrection and race war.

Slavery’s history stretched back to antiquity. Prior to the American Revolution, nearly everyone in the world accepted it as a natural part of life.

Congress reached a “compromise” on Missouri’s admission, largely through the work of Kentuckian Henry Clay

Revolutionaries in the United States declared

I cannot but laugh

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.

"I long to hear that you have declared an independency

former slaves fled with the British army.

Americans began to create their own manufactures, no longer content to rely on those in Britain

Americans celebrated their victory, but it came at great cost

By 1781, the British were also fighting France, Spain, and Holland.

he developed his own logic of warfare

The Congress approved the document on July 4, 1776

dangerous and ill-designing men

Congress was in the strange position of attempting reconciliation while publicly raising an army.

The Congress struck a compromise

the Coercive Acts fostered the sense of shared identity created over the previous decade

Because women were often making decisions regarding which household items to purchase, their participation in consumer boycotts held particular weight

By buying the tea, even though it was cheaper, colonists would be paying the duty and thereby implicitly acknowledging Parliament’s right to tax them.

. A new sense of shared grievances began to join the colonists in a shared American political identity.

bloodthirsty British soldiers with grins on their faces firing into a peaceful crowd.

When a small number of soldiers came to the sentry’s aid, the crowd grew increasingly hostile until the soldiers fired.

colonists, once again, resisted.

In New York City, the inhabitants raised a huge lead statue of King George III in honor of the Stamp Act’s repeal.

However, the colonists rejected the notion of virtual representation, with one pamphleteer calling it a “monstrous idea

This led, in part, to broader, more popular resistance.

Stamp Act

The King forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains in an attempt to limit costly wars with Native Americans.

Britain now controlled the North American continent east of the Mississippi River, including French Canada.

Both Locke and Whitefield had empowered individuals to question authority and to take their lives into their own hands.

Education would produce rational human beings capable of thinking for themselves and questioning authority rather than tacitly accepting tradition.

Perhaps no single philosopher had a greater impact on colonial thinking than John Locke

Colonial political culture in the colonies also developed differently than that of the mother country

Samuel Adams, in the Boston Gazette, described the colonies as each being a “separate body politic” from Britain.

Constant war was politically consuming and economically expensive.

But the Revolution was as paradoxical as it was unpredictable

Throughout the eighteenth century, colonists had developed significant emotional ties with both the British monarchy and the British constitution

I am not of opinion that in giving Land to the English, we deprive ourselves of the use of it, on the Contrary, I think we shall share it with them,

Neither will the Generous Inflict a Punishment without a Crime.

eternal marks traced

No group—European or Indian—held sovereign power, and diplomatic, military, trading, and social exchanges continued for much of the eighteenth century.

Native Americans living in interior regions maintained greater control over their lands and culture

the lower People,

Loudon complained about the colonists in letters to the Duke of Cumberland:

Oh that I would be a Dog or a toad or any Creature but Man

and put me into a trembling fear before he began to preach;

I saw no man at work in his field, but all seemed to be gone.

4000 of people

every horse seemed to go with all his might to carry his rider to hear news from heaven for the saving of Souls;

I dropt my tool and I had in my hand an ran home to my wife telling her to make ready quickly to go and hear Mr. Whitefield preach at Middletown

and great numbers were converted to Christ;

It is true governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit every one who enjoys his share of the protection should pay out of his estate his proportion for the maintenance of it

men unite into societies that they may have the united strength of the whole society to secure and defend their properties,

The rules that they make for, other men's actions must, as well as their own and other men's actions, be conformable to the law of Nature — i.e., to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of Nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good or valid against it.

it being ridiculous to imagine one can be tied ultimately to obey any power in the society which is not the supreme.

This legislative is not only the supreme power of the commonwealth, but sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it

if anybody dislike, I consent with him to change it for a better.

hereditary monarchy

whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any commonwealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws

of doing whatsoever he thought fit for the preservation of himself